Need collector's help with old FN .25 ACP

Eppie · October 24, 2012, 04:46 PM

Hi Everyone,
I found this pistol in my 90 year old father's desk a few months ago while cleaning out his house. He has vascular dementia and doesn't remember anything about it.

He was not a gun person and I assume he bought it for my mother because he travelled a lot. I know it still works, because I fired it. I cleaned it and I'm now looking to trade it for something more practical like a Glock or a 1911

Can anyone give any idea as to where I can find a value of something like this?

Kindest regards

Winchester_73 · October 24, 2012, 05:12 PM

Hi your picture did not come up. I assume its either a FN 1905 or a baby browning. Please try posing pics again.

Bill DeShivs · October 24, 2012, 06:58 PM

If the other side looks as good, value would be $400 plus.
One day, after you have traded it, you will regret getting rid of it.
First- it was mom and dad's.
Second, it's old and in very good condition.
Third, it's an FN (Browning design) gun.
Fourth, they don't make them any more.
Save your money up and buy a Glock or 1911. Put the little FN away.

WVsig · October 24, 2012, 07:12 PM

I will trade you a Glock 19 LNIB Gen3 for it.... Let me know.

Winchester_73 · October 24, 2012, 07:40 PM

Nice gun. I think $400 plus is very high. Remember 100s of thousands of these were made. I would pay $300 for it probably, but would want the purse! I wonder what my friends would say if I carried it in a purse? Probably the same thing(s) they say already

Venom1956 · October 24, 2012, 07:48 PM

Real men use purses!

Eppie · October 24, 2012, 09:35 PM

VWSig, if you were in Houston I'd take you up on it.

I already have a G17, G34 and G21. My daughter asked for my G19 and I miss it. I really do not care for any subcompacts.

I'm not attaching any emotional value to the pistol because it wasn't something that my Dad valued or had any attachment to it. I didn't even know he had it. I doubt it the gun had ever been fired before I did it.

I have lots of other personal things that really meant a lot to him and to me. I'm not really a collector, I just like to shoot.

wstein · October 24, 2012, 10:04 PM

If you still have it around Xmas, I'll be passing through Houston. I might take it off your ands for the right price.

October 24, 2012, 05:12 PM	#2
Winchester_73 Senior Member Join Date: December 20, 2008 Location: Pittsburgh PA Posts: 2,863	Hi your picture did not come up. I assume its either a FN 1905 or a baby browning. Please try posing pics again. __________________ Winchester 73, the TFL user that won the west

October 24, 2012, 06:58 PM	#3
Bill DeShivs Senior Member Join Date: April 7, 2006 Posts: 10,984	If the other side looks as good, value would be $400 plus. One day, after you have traded it, you will regret getting rid of it. First- it was mom and dad's. Second, it's old and in very good condition. Third, it's an FN (Browning design) gun. Fourth, they don't make them any more. Save your money up and buy a Glock or 1911. Put the little FN away. __________________ Bill DeShivs, Master Cutler www.billdeshivs.com

October 24, 2012, 07:12 PM	#4
WVsig Senior Member Join Date: June 30, 2010 Location: NC Posts: 5,309	I will trade you a Glock 19 LNIB Gen3 for it.... Let me know. __________________ -The right to be left alone is the most comprehensive of rights, and the right most valued by free people.-Louis Brandeis -Its a tool box... I don't care you put the tools in for the job that's all... -Sam from Ronin -It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. -Aristotle

October 24, 2012, 07:40 PM	#5
Winchester_73 Senior Member Join Date: December 20, 2008 Location: Pittsburgh PA Posts: 2,863	Nice gun. I think $400 plus is very high. Remember 100s of thousands of these were made. I would pay $300 for it probably, but would want the purse! I wonder what my friends would say if I carried it in a purse? Probably the same thing(s) they say already __________________ Winchester 73, the TFL user that won the west

October 24, 2012, 07:48 PM	#6
Venom1956 Senior Member Join Date: October 4, 2008 Location: WI Posts: 3,656	Real men use purses! __________________ E-Shock rounds are engineered to expend maximum energy into soft targets, turning the density mass into an expanding rotational cone of NyTrilium matrix particles, causing neurological collapse to the central nervous system.- Yeah I can do that. I guarantee you will know it if a bicyclist hits your house going 1000 mph. -Smaug

October 24, 2012, 09:35 PM	#7
Eppie Senior Member Join Date: January 7, 2010 Location: Houston, TX Posts: 802	VWSig, if you were in Houston I'd take you up on it. I already have a G17, G34 and G21. My daughter asked for my G19 and I miss it. I really do not care for any subcompacts. I'm not attaching any emotional value to the pistol because it wasn't something that my Dad valued or had any attachment to it. I didn't even know he had it. I doubt it the gun had ever been fired before I did it. I have lots of other personal things that really meant a lot to him and to me. I'm not really a collector, I just like to shoot. __________________ "Socialized Medicine is the Keystone to the Arch of the Socialist State.” -Vladimir Lenin "I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them." - Thomas Jefferson (An early warning to Obama care) Last edited by Eppie; October 24, 2012 at 09:51 PM.

October 24, 2012, 10:04 PM	#8
wstein Senior Member Join Date: January 6, 2009 Location: Tampa Bay, FL Posts: 155	If you still have it around Xmas, I'll be passing through Houston. I might take it off your ands for the right price. __________________ ________________________________________ I don't have a good signature.....